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Don Quixote - SCP-4028

Don Quixote - SCP-4028

SCP-4028 is Alonso ‘Don’ Quixote, the titular character of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel, existing as fiction-within-fiction in the Foundation universe. As a sapient metafictional construct, he can inhabit, alter, and move through fictional texts via narrative adjacency, possessing meta-awareness and the ability to interact with other works. He infects public works and the SCP Database, battling anomalies before self-neutralizing. His history, personality, and delusions of grandeur follow Cervantes’s writing, but become real through his narrative alterations. Later revealed as Sancho Panza in disguise in the second iteration, they reunite and retire to fight wind turbines in Spain.

Anomaly

  • SCP-4028 is a sapient metafictional construct that inhabits and alters fictional texts like books and databases, moving through them based on narrative adjacency such as shared characters and settings. (source) ([Article] H)
  • SCP-423 comments that SCP-4028 is more intimidating than other metafictional SCPs like 3143 and 2747, due to his close tie to the concept of metafiction itself. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Intimidates the narrator of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue into giving Justine and her sister a happy ending. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Changes SCP-055 from a powerful anti-meme that cannot be remembered or described into a beautiful princess. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Alters SCP-140, a book that retroactively alters history to include an anomalous civilization, into a book describing his many adventures. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Eventually reaches and alters his own SCP article while invading the SCP Database. The next iteration describes a different anomaly, but writer commentary suggests it represents the same Alonso and Sancho. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Turns SCP-3361, a living sentient drawing, into an abomination from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. (source) ([OCT] H)
  • Has literal plot armor, implied to prevent death from keeping him down. (source) ([OCT] H)
  • Went on a crusade between multiple books in an SCP Doctor’s personal library. (source) ([Tale])

Physicals - Strength

  • Strikes down The Raven from Edgar Allan Poe’s poem with an axe, then fistfights the poem’s narrator. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Kills the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come from A Christmas Carol by charging it on horseback. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Strikes down an entire brothel building. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Pre-emptively kills every responsible party for Justine’s misfortunes in Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue. (source) ([Article] H)
  • After returning the ring and striking down evil-doers on the way to Mordor, one-shots Sauron from Lord of the Rings. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Knocks out The Man in Black from The Dark Tower with a sword blow. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Strikes down Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Engages SCP-076 in a swordfight lasting half a day, ending in a draw. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Kills SCP-682 after an extended battle. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Slices apart a bathroom stall door. (source) ([OCT] H)
  • Splits the door to SCP-049’s containment chamber in half. (source) ([OCT] H)
  • Destroys a miniature windmill giant with a kitchen knife. (source) ([OCT])
  • Slices apart metal doors. (source) ([OCT])
  • Explodes the wall to SCP-049’s containment chamber. (source) ([OCT])
  • Unhinges a door to an interview room. (source) ([OCT])
  • One-shots a stand-up fan giant. (source) ([OCT])
  • Shatters stone creatures with his lance. (source) ([OCT])
  • Destroys the eye of a massive dragon with his lance. (source) ([OCT])
  • This dragon was a thousand miles wide. (source) ([OCT])
  • After being affixed to a naked singularity, thrusts his lance into the dragon, causing it to explode in a supernova of light. (source) ([OCT])

Physicals - Speed

  • Strikes down a lightning bolt before it hits two women. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Matches SCP-076 in an extended swordfight. (source) ([Article] H)

Physicals - Durability

  • Withstands a surprise attack from SCP-076 that sends him off his horse. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Takes SCP-682’s fire breath with some injury. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Breaks out of memetic influence from SCP-1013 in time to kill it and resists its petrifying bite. (source) ([Article] H)
  • Has literal plot armor implied to stop mundane bullets. (source) ([OCT])
  • Is fine in the vacuum of space and can gallop on empty space. (source) ([OCT])
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